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Enchanted Christmas Light

I made a gingerbread lighthouse with a mermaid and lots of sea creatures. Some tools that I used : an X-acto knife for cutting out all of the pieces and scoring the woodgrain into the rowboat and the pilings; a fine sand paper for rounding and smoothing both gingerbread and gumpaste; a metal ruler for cutting and measuring all of the main pieces as well as the individual bricks, shingles, and stones; a level to make sure the "rock" base was level. It was so much fun and it really gave me a healthy respect for builders of life size houses! Thank you!